30.11.08

The host club has a very strange and powerful hold over the imaginations of many people in Japan, or so it appears. Case in point: Bloodhound (full Japanese title: 夜型愛人専門店 -ブラッド ハウンド- DX) by Kaori Yuki. It is a manga about a host club... staffed by vampires. Yes! Vampires! Looks like it was a rather brief series, running from 2003-2004. It was also made into a drama in 2004 under the title Vampire Host. Some episodes are floating around subtitled on the internet under the English translation Vampire Gigolo. (They probably could have just used the word "host"...) And the manga is supposedly floating around in scanlated form under the title "Bloodhound."